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plaintext vs plain text unencrypted vs unstructured Of course, unstructured is also incorrect; the passwd and shadow files have structured records, one per li
by dsr_ 3y ago
plaintext vs plain text
unencrypted vs unstructured
Of course, unstructured is also incorrect; the passwd and shadow files have structured records, one per line.
- thwarted 3y ago…and being structured, the passwd file content should be accessed with the getpwent family of functions.
- bhawks 3y agoWhich unfortunately are not thread safe.
- neuromanser 3y ago"unencrypted" is normally written as "cleartext". "plaintext" means "(readable / intended to be read) without a special viewer". Your.ssh /id_rsa is plaintext but not cleartext.